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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBen Stein: REPUBLICAN Nabob Of Negativism Sez Romney 'Losing Candidate'
OP's note: having seen all those "we're doomed" threads posted by various pessimistic DU'ers, I found it very heartening (and rather entertaining) to discover that there are more than a few people in GOP country who aren't too sure about R-money's chances.
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"[Romney] has all around him the look of a losing candidate," the economist and actor said Thursday on Tavis Smiley's PBS program.
Stein, who made waves in May for saying he doesn't think President Obama is a very smart man, said the chief reason for the GOP nominee's woes is his lack of a strategy for economic recovery.
"Mr. Romney does not have a plan to turn things around. All he's saying, and correctly so, is that Mr. Obama said he had a plan that would work and it didn't," Stein said. "But does Mr. Romney have a better plan? If he does, we haven't seen it."
http://www.politico.com/blogs/click/2012/08/ben-stein-romneys-a-losing-candidate-133987.html?hp=l7
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Ya know, we Democrats might pull off a victory after all.
louis-t
(23,295 posts)He also said that trickle down doesn't work, and that rich people need to pay more taxes. He said good economic times came when taxes were high and bad times came when taxes were low.
That half of his brain works right.
Vogon_Glory
(9,120 posts)Of course Stein would be labeled a RINO and canned from any Republican Party position if he stood by his remarks. Tea-publican ideological purity enforcers are beginning to get as bad as those of some of the old Marxist-Leninist parties.
russspeakeasy
(6,539 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,043 posts)The best most Republicans can say about Romney is he's not Obama.
randome
(34,845 posts)Nah. I got nothin'.
Fortinbras Armstrong
(4,473 posts)I am no particular fan of Obama, but he is miles ahead of Romney. And if Romney thinks "Vote for me because I'm not Obama" is a winning strategy, he is simply delusional.
sadbear
(4,340 posts)Buy Ben, I thought ALL republicans, even yourself, believe that tax cuts for the wealthy is the ONLY strategy for economic recovery. Is Mitt not saying this enough for you?
Fortinbras Armstrong
(4,473 posts)But he is not a supply-sider. I suspect this is because he actually knows something about economics.
Brother Buzz
(36,444 posts)Ryan's tap may have been the straw that broke the camel's back. That, and Romney's flip-flop shifts over the the dark corner to embrace the wackadoodles. Was a time when Romney had broader support, but that was then, and this is now.
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)as magically skilled and in control of everything at all times. Additionally, those posters see the bulk of Americans as 'idiots, brainwashed' etc, AND themselves as having a crystal clear vision of all that others fail to see. It is not pessimism, it is ego.
randome
(34,845 posts)I think it's a kind of powerlessness that sets in. And it's understandable since we've had 30 years of Republican rule.
But if you look at the evidence: Palin, Romney, Akin, Ryan, it's clear that today's GOP is much weaker than before.